Top 100 Magician Quotes
#1. Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.
Jon Turteltaub
#2. The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever make a tolerable magician.
Susanna Clarke
#3. How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.
Susanna Clarke
#4. Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!
Patricia C. Wrede
#5. All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
Penn Jillette
#6. God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.
Pope Francis
#7. The Duke of York remarked that King Ferdinand of Spain had sent a letter to the Prince Regent complaining that many parts of his kingdom had been rendered entirely unrecognizable by the English magician and demanding that Mr Strange return and restore the country to its original form.
Susanna Clarke
#8. Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. ( ... ) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !
Charles Shaar Murray
#9. When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.
Rebecca Makkai
#10. Magician is the best storyteller in the world.
Amit Kalantri
#11. Ronan laughed suddenly. That sound, as crooked and joyful and terrible as the dream in his hand, should have woken these cattle if nothing else did.
"I hear if you want magic done," he said, "you ask a magician.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.
Amit Kalantri
#13. For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
Alan Moore
#14. A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.
Harlan Tarbell
#15. He nodded nervously. 'He looks like a magician. I hate magicians. They usually have rabbits.'
I stared at him. 'You're scared of bunnies?'
'Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs.
Rick Riordan
#16. Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.
Susanna Clarke
#17. One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#18. Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. Goes like a Magician soona without a wings and soon he will follow his own death like Houdini.
Deyth Banger
#21. Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.
Emily Dickinson
#22. I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
Orson Welles
#23. After this, anything might happen. Anything at all. - The End, Mairelon the Magician 1
Patricia C. Wrede
#24. The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.
Peter Mullan
#25. My mouth went dry. I imagined Annabeth invoking hieroglyphs at Camp Half-Blood, blowing up chariots on the racetrack, hurling giant blue fists during capture the flag. 'So my girlfriend is a magician now, like, permanently? Because she was scary enough before.
Rick Riordan
#26. My mom said:'Don't put your finger in your brother's ear! If you want to know how that quarter trick is done, go ask the magician.' So I tugged on The Great Arturo's pant leg until he finally taught me how. That was my first magic trick! I was five years old.
Autumn Morning Star
#27. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#28. I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.
Doug Henning
#30. What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? *
Jeff VanderMeer
#31. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#32. I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Ira Glass
#33. A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic ...
Bill Gaede
#34. If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.
Ernie J Zelinski
#35. Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never would.
Susanna Clarke
#36. I can even see that little flourish he often does with his hand. The one that looks like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, only the rabbit is your dignity and the hat is him slowly strangling it to death in front of you. Certainly
Charlotte Stein
#37. The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Alan Moore
#38. No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.
Lon Milo DuQuette
#39. Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
Qiu Xiaolong
#41. It's incomprehensible to me why a magician would create something that can be used against him. It's like giving your sword to your previously unarmed enemy, and then being surprised when he stabs you with it!" Bruns
Maria V. Snyder
#42. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret ... but you wont find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.
Christopher Priest
#43. Where is the magic? In nature! Where is the magician? In nature? Who is the magician? The nature!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
Anais Nin
#45. Arcadius was nothing but an old hack, what Cenzars used to refer to as a faquin, an elven term for the most inept magician - knowledge without talent.
Michael J. Sullivan
#46. A person who takes a concrete place and convert it into a garden of flowers is a real magician!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. And now, Your Majesty," said Strange, "I think it is time we returned to the Castle. You and I, Your Majesty, are a British King and a British magician. Though Great Britain may desert us, we have no right to desert Great Britain. She may have need of us yet.
Susanna Clarke
#48. Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.
Raymond E. Feist
#49. A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed.
Franz Bardon
#50. I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
Alexander Herrmann
#51. Who was it that said a magician needs the subtlety of a Jesuit, the daring of a soldier and the wits of a thief? I believe it was meant for a insult, but it has some truth in it.
Susanna Clarke
#52. That's why I always keep a handful of silver glitter in my pockets. If I get pushed into a conversational corner I throw the glitter into the air, and while the person I'm talking to is distracted, I run away. An additional benefit is that I look like a cool magician, so I've got that going for me.
Jon Acuff
#53. Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.
Woody Allen
#54. I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
Roberto Benigni
#55. I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could.
Susanna Clarke
#56. [...] a white magician is just a black magician with a good housekeeper.
Terry Pratchett
#57. The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.
Amit Kalantri
#58. In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Patti Smith
#59. The more apparatus a magician carries about with him - coloured powders, stuffed cats, magical hats and so forth - the greater the fraud you will eventually discover him to be!
Susanna Clarke
#60. Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest.
Carl Jung
#61. If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.
Amit Kalantri
#62. Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
Andrea Gibson
#63. FaraWell or Goodbye it really doesn't matter it shows one magic. If you find it, you are a magician!
Deyth Banger
#64. A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation - the degree to which he naturally removes himself from mass-media input and stimuli. You cannot be an elitist, a Magician, and be plugged into the system.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#65. It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul.
Aleister Crowley
#66. As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.
Amit Kalantri
#67. People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.
Ruud Gullit
#68. The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said.
Peter S. Beagle
#69. I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.
Kate DiCamillo
#70. The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.
Franz Bardon
#71. A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first
Louis L'Amour
#72. You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
T.H. White
#73. That's how you roll when you're a secret teenage magician
Lev Grossman
#74. As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.
Amit Kalantri
#75. Magic is magic except to the magician.
Don Bradley
#76. I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.
Susanna Clarke
#77. The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
Tanith Lee
#78. As a magician, you must think about chaos and order. Those are the two forces that control the universe.
Rick Riordan
#79. I've got a system." He reached under a stack on the left corner of his desk, pulled out a file.
"It's like the magician's tablecloth trick," she commented. "Nicely done."
"Want to see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?
Nora Roberts
#80. A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.
Harry Houdini
#81. Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect
he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself.
Susanna Clarke
#82. I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
#83. I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.
Lev Grossman
#84. Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
David Copperfield
#85. More lies. But what could you do? That's how you roll when you're a teenage magician!
Lev Grossman
#86. Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida
#87. A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.
Amit Kalantri
#88. the writing of fiction is akin to the work of a stage magician, a feat of sustained deception in which by imagery and language the trickster leads the audience to believe in the existence or possibility of a series of nonexistent or impossible things.
Michael Chabon
#89. Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.
Karen R. Koenig
#90. Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
T.F. Hodge
#91. Together, but Billy Lee was the magician. I barely qualified
Carolyn Brown
#92. Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.
Lance Burton
#93. Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?
Robert Anton Wilson
#94. His room was like an explorer's den, a lair of furs, the cave of a magician.
Anais Nin
#95. a book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic.
Susanna Clarke
#96. I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.
Janette Turner Hospital
#97. There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician. He
Susanna Clarke
#98. Sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another ...
Jose Saramago
#99. It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'
Tina Fey
#100. Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.
Amit Kalantri
